Allison J. Gong

@ayjag
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California native, freelance biology professor, and perpetual student of the marine invertebrates. I blog about natural history here: canaturalist.com
Websitehttps://www.canaturalist.com/

Effects of the #2023atmosphericriver along my local coastline in Northern California. Crazy out there!
#California #storm

https://www.canaturalist.com/an-ocean-and-a-lagoon/

An ocean and a lagoon

Yesterday and last night California was hit by an atmospheric river bringing lots of rain and the flooding that comes along with it. Combined with a spring high tide, the storm surge gave us tremen…

Notes from a California naturalist
@ucsc Glad to hear it!

@nazgul @KatM

Ooh, that is such a lovely part of the world! If things had gone differently, I would have lived up there and spent most of my time at Friday Harbor.

@KatM I also have a thing for marinas and harbors!
@SarahMackAttack
Happy to find you here, so I could follow you again!
@[email protected] One can hope, but that little serotonin hit for a like or re-post does seem to be very addicting for a lot of people. I think I'm lucky in that I've never really been able to see Twitter as anything but a cesspool, so leaving it hasn't been much of a challenge at all.
My friend @JanousekWild reminds me that on #phycologyfriday we celebrate the #algae. Hard to choose a favorite, but over the past few field seasons I've fallen in love with these sea sacs, #Halosaccionglandiforme.

Just in time for #Halloween, I remember that I wrote about #zombies—zombees, actually—a few years ago! #beekeeping

https://www.canaturalist.com/zombeeees/

Zombeeees!

Just in time for Hallowe’en! I have photographic evidence that some of our bees have been taken over by parasitic phorid flies. These flies are a group of diverse animals, including wasps and…

Notes from a California naturalist

LDN 43: The Cosmic Bat Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby; Text: Michelle Thaller (NASA's GSFC)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221031.html #APOD

APOD: 2022 October 31 - LDN 43: The Cosmic Bat Nebula

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

My last trip to the #rockyintertidal, which was all too long ago, back in mid-August. But look at all those luscious #seaweeds! Can't wait to get back out there and get my face down where my feet are.